Notes & Assignments 4/16/09

hi all

great work on the posters. lots of good progress. please post your two final posters here on the blog. as i said, if this is not done you will lose a full letter of your grade.

a reminder: WE ARE MEETING AT 18 WOOSTER ST. (DEITCH PROJECTS) NEXT THURSDAY FOR CLASS, AT 12PM. do not go to our regular room.

your assignments for this week are as follows:

each PERSON is to create ONE small collateral piece for their festival. make one of the following:
• 4" x 6" Postcard, 2 sides
• T-shirt, 2 sides (bring in your design on two pieces of 11x17 paper)
• 5" x 5" Promo CD sleeve, 2 sides, with 4.75" CD
• 30 sec. Flash/After FX promo piece, saved as Quicktime
these pieces must have the following info: festival name/logo; venue name & location; main dates; artist lineup with dates & times. all members of the group have their choice of any of the pieces.

each GROUP is to create ONE large collateral piece. make one of the following:
• 6 section foldout poster (both sides), minimum 24"x20"
• 12 page booklet (front & back + 5 spreads), minimum 5"x5" page.
this piece must contain all the information collected last week, i.e.: 10-20 performer lineup w/dates & times; artists bios w/URLs, album names, & record labels; venue information w/address, directions & special instructions; ticketing info; general festival info.

your real challenge is to create and use a grid for the large collateral piece. keep in mind...
HIERARCHY, whose element are font/typeface, alignment/indentation, position, size, space, color
GRID, whose elements are page size, margins, columns, horizontal guides, modules, fixed content zones (i.e. navigation), rules (lines)